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Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles – with GPM Handling (archives.gentoo.org)
2 points by M95D 2 days ago
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A gem hidden in a mailing list.

> kernel patch which enables soft scrolling on Linux tty's with <shift><PgUp> and <shift><PgDn>, and also enables the GPM mouse utility on those scrolled regions.

> Attached is a patch which enables this facility in kernel 6.18.12 (and likely future 6.18.n versions, too).